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They were? I thought the Birch Carrol and Coyal promo before the movie was the best part of Final Destination 1 (followed closely by the first bus).

A bit off topic, but basicly the costs involved with opening rides late for functions are so high, that you need well over 100 people for it to be cheap enough to make it even slightly attractive, but even then that still wouldn't be half-price on a normal entry ticket, and would include all of one hour "ERT", on a one ride, with nothing else included. So far 25th Febuary Weekend, and March 18 Weekend are out in front, but keep the votes coming.

Name me a more thrilling four person raft slides in the southern hemisphere. Then consider that it says "One of the most thrilling" rather then "the most thrilling", then consider it was moved from Wet "N" Wild for a bunch of stuff that didn't include ride experience, and I think you'll find the answer is a resounding "Yes". It was moved to provide a space for another high capacity "River" attraction off the "Mammoth" tower, as Plunge didn't handle as many people as the river did. It was relocated to SW since the old slides were old, and needed replacing, and the tower was (amazingly) the same height, and the ride fit in perfectly at SW. It really is that simple.

I don't think Wipeout's system is right for Superman, the wall between load and unload simply isn't long enough for such a system, don't forget that you would also need storage space for 3 groups of people, not 2 like Wipeout (two groups that are on the ride, and the one that is behind the gates at the station). It would also clog up the unload station with people grabbing their stuff, slowing things down again. I think the ultimate, workable, solution would be: . I'm not sure if the lockers can be programmed in such a way, but I think that should be investigated.

If your so sick of hearing about it, then why did you bring it up here?

There must be some merit to the idea, since some parks do use such a system (Cedar Point comes to mind). Personally I don't think we have the capacity on our rides to make a system like that work well. Realistically, you’re going to need more staff to operate a system that inconveniences half the guests in the park. Another thing is from 4.30 or 5 onwards the queues are pretty minimal anyway. I'd say a gimmick of allocating/recommending a ride time of 4.45 with the promise of a shorter wait, would be more useful then doing a real system.

There aren't really any true indoor theme parks in Oz. I guess Funtasia on the Gold Coast could probably just barely be counted, purely because its got a bumper cars and mini golf but even that's a bit dodgy (I don't really buy the arcade being an indoor theme park thing). Snow World is a possibility, since it is indoors and has a consistent theme, and an Ice slide, but again seems a bit dodgy. There was a proper indoor park proposed for Surfers (Named Fantasea if memory serves correctly), which was a sea themed park over 4 or 5 levels. Basically as you went further down the further down the sea you'd go, and on the bottom level there was a Deep Sea sub ride, and the top level was themed to be over the surface and basically be restaurants and the like.

I read all that and just use the word "magic" to sum it all up Good read that one, though allot of the first half flew pretty high over my head. I really should learn how it works beyond a sleigh attaches itself to the train and then goes really really fast.

Your rant, besides being really stupid, was badly worded and punctuated poorly. Fix it in future.

Haha yeah true, but you've got to admit WVTPs (Movieworld in particular) don't really do many "Off the shelf" standard designs, and the few off the shelf’s there are get pretty well themed. Not quite the same as story telling, but still get what he's on about.

Put it this way, talk about Paradise Country & Outback Spectacular started in about 1997. Just because they've announced that they want to build a Sunny Coast Wet 'n' Wild doesn't mean its going to happen this year/decade. Even though the timeline suggested finalising the design by now with construction due to start soon for a 2007/8 opening, don't expect anything to be happening quickly. I seem to recall plans for a Singapore Seaworld which is still on the drawing boards too.

I deleted two, but two that were whinning about deleted posts, not anything from the "real" convo.

Figured this would be of interest to someone here, but Scooby Doo's layout is now listed on MACK's website as Example #1.

Chaos, of course, that was the only time I've ever been on a Chaos, can't beleive I forgot it Like I say though, there weren't any queues for the extra rides (maybe one cycle, though they were getting pretty close to being full when loaded). As a guest I thought it was really neat, and really, it fit in with DW quite well (Remember this was next to Country Fair with an arcade, Enterprise, Gravatron, Zumer, Bumper cars, and the carni games nearby), and even with the Ocean Parade themeing it would probably still fit in. I don't know how the attendance went for that holiday period (or what the 5 extra rides were competiting against) but evidently it didn't provide enough of a boost, which I think is a shame since I really liked it and would have loved to see it work. I know I'm going against popular opinion here, but as a guest I reckon an extra ride or two would be good over Xmas. Would it make money? Who knows, 5 temp. rides obviously doesn't make money (or they'd do it again), but one or two? I'd love to see them give it a crack.

Dreamworld did have more rides in one year, with the Extended Play promotion. They had if memory serves correctly, Ali Baba, Scorpion, Hang Over, Some dodgy Simulator, and possibly one more that escapes memory (or maybe it was just 4?). All of the rides were placed together, and strangely, in the middle of summer these rides were pretty much walk on compared to huge lines for all the normal rides. I think it was a pretty cool idea, and one that I was sad to see die after the first year. Evidently cost more then it was worth, but I liked it.

Eh, I knew it was 3 or 4, and knew that no matter what I said, I'd probably be corrected . The spirit of the post remains though, you can't fully fill a tube on Plunge, but you can on River, hence why replacing Punge with another River is an increase in capacity.

Max capacity in each tube on Mammoth River: 6 Max capacity in each tube on Mammoth Plunge: 4 Does more need to be said?

Did you know that the average age for a child 140cm in height is between 10 and 11 years of age?. In other words, it turns out that some of the kids on supermanescape.com.au WILL have to learn to spell before they go on the ride afterall.

Superman is now testing, and testing late into the night with shifts scheduled until midnight. With that knowledge in hand, here's a mostly 'artsy' update from our good friends at Ozcoaster (which not even an army of hungry mosquitoes could hold back), as well as daytime shots from staff areas, and a couple groundwork shots Enjoy!

Get tougher feet? Works good for me.

Just to clarify, that’s what I'm saying; even though DW are spending a total of $6mil more, when you factor in land and existing infrastructure then its probably closer to $10mil more.

I'd love to see something else come off that tower, it’s just so huge, and something where the old toboggan used to be would be great. From the top of the tower, I reckon one like Mammoth River but enclosed would be just the ticket. Imagine it going over the water park and landing in a pool just next too the Plunge exit chute. Feasible? No. Practical? No. Possible? Probably not. Nice dream? Hell yeah Just on the update, giving you some idea of how the pace of construction has picked up, the lift is now in place, with more photos (hopefully) coming next week.

Don’t worry about Daniel, he's a prick, aren't ya Dan? I wouldn't worry about his sarcasm, and overall that’s pretty light compared to elsewhere. I got the impression that he actually likes you...

Finished? If you want tips on beating queues, visit here. I've never lined up at WnW for more then 20mins for anything, and I've been on everything more times then I'd like to admit, and I only go in the summer months. Yes, there are long queues in the park, but if you get into a queue, find its moving slow and there are heaps of people in front of you, then try something else. Common sense dude.

Hey, I'm looking forward to it, but I wanna see what it is first before I commit. In the meantime, I'm speculating, deal with it The point on the money: WVTPs were going to spend $50mill on WnW on the Sunny Coast, and gave the impression that it would be substansially smaller then the original. When you take land aquisition and pre-exisiting infustructure into account, that means DW is spending probably $10mill more on their water park which I have no doubt will translate to quite a bit. However, $56 mill to me doesn't sound like a great deal of money for a whole park. History may well prove me wrong, but until I see the park thats impression I get. I also am not saying I'm against the idea, I'm just putting the other point of view out there for you all (though I do feel as though this will "thin the crowds", not create new customers), but having said that, I can't imagine that the Gold Coast market couldn't support two (or three) water parks in the longer term. Slick, comments like that are better not to listen to, though I really can't see this big outcry about how bad this park will be your talking about. I mean, there's like one post in the other topic, and one in this thread from someone who has no idea what they're talking about. Perhaps you should save the "I know stuff" rant for later.